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Andy, it seemed, was making an underground movie of people seeing an underground movie, letting his camera automatically scan back and forth between the world of coupons and caviar and that of pop and pot. After several paper cups full of champagne and apple cider, the socialites unbuttoned their suit jackets, set their ties at half-mast, and mixed it up with the denizens of the underground on the dance floor. Said one girl in a Pucci gown: "This is a gas! I mean, this is what I call a real party...
...author and historian, a salty New Englander who in 20 fast-moving, informative volumes on early America (The Age of the Moguls, The Yankee Exodus) often found the human side more interesting than the heroic, serving up such tidbits as Ethan Allen's incurable love of "stonewalls" (cider laced with rum) and the fact that Billy the Kid in real life was a bucktoothed adenoid case; of a stroke; in Portland...
...destinies and moralities. Father Leander Wapshot's wonderful journal (found in a trunk in the attic) recites like a Greek chorus the ancient obligations to race and region. He had taught his sons to "fell a tree, sow, cultivate and harvest, save money, countersink a nail, make cider with a hand press, clean a gun, sail a boat, etc." But Leander was defeated in his patriarch's role when his ferryboat was beached by women and turned into a gift shoppe. Leander's two sons, Moses and Coverly, were expelled from the paradisial St. Botolphs...
Keating is in great demand at Washington parties, but he is no social lion, rarely drinks, and smokes only an occasional cigar. A physical fitness enthusiast, he swims a good deal, exercises on arising every morning, guzzles a mixture of apple cider vinegar and honey to ward off colds...
Sloane shows how to build a house without a nail in it that will go up and stay up for hundreds of years, how to make a bottle-glass window, a fieldstone grike, a folding ladder, a wooden tub, a cider press. Two ways to stack cordwood. A recipe for brown ink ("Boiled down walnut or butternut hulls that have been mashed first. Add vinegar and salt to boiling water to 'set' "). From king posts to roofing, Author Sloane details the construction of a covered bridge, which was an 1805 innovation. George Washington never...